what is the definition of boy?

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boy Definition In English

0 a male child or, more generally, a male of any age:
- He plays baseball, drinks a lot of beer and generally acts like one of the boys.
- We must not forget our boys serving far from home.
- He used to like spending Friday nights with the boys.
- All right, boys and girls, settle down!
- Their little boy (= their young son) is very sick.
- You've been a very naughty boy!
- As a young boy, my father used to walk three miles to school.
- a teenage/adolescent boy
1 used to express excitement, worry, disappointment, etc. or to emphasize something:
- Boy, that was good!
2 a male child or, more generally, a male of any age:
- We have two children – a boy and a girl.
- Some boys were playing basketball in the schoolyard.
3 abbreviation for beginning of year

Neighbouring villages would typically share a common grazing area to prevent stock rustlers from attacking boys caring for livestock far from the settlements.
Methodological considerations ultimately reduced our final sample size to 28; there were seventeen boys and eleven girls.
A working boy was elevated to heroic status.
The boys were dressed in khaki and gave up all other activities in order to establish a state.
These intercept estimates indicate that rejected boys had approximately three more parent-reported internalizing symptoms than nonrejected boys at the initial sixth-grade assessment.
These standards were derived from boys living mostly in lower income families.
A 22-month-old boy was referred for corrective cardiac surgery.
Results indicated that externalizing behavior was positively associated with physical victimization for boys and girls, but not with relational victimization.